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Discover LudwigThe phrase "seats himself" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when someone takes a seat without being asked or told to by someone else, such as in the sentence: "The old man seated himself at the front of the room."
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Will he give up his obsessive beneficence when he seats himself on the Stone of Scone?
My dad seats himself behind where I stand, at the worktop beside the stove.
A man seats himself in the tube and uses what look like two wooden spatulas to paddle across the river.
This vanishes when he seats himself at the instrument, in which he seems for the time perfectly absorbed.
Bobby Short seats himself at the piano, saying, "Whenever Brooke comes here to the Café, I play a certain favorite song of hers".
And when, to conclude, Mr. Felder seats himself at the Steinway grand at center stage, plays a furiously dramatic rendition of "Rhapsody in Blue" and then simply exits, the effect is that of a angry processional at a memorial service.
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He seated himself.
Beethoven, left alone, seated himself at the piano.
Khaika motioned me to one of the chairs and seated himself in the next one.
For distraction, he seated himself at our table with a deck of cards.
He seated himself at the table, and I asked Khaika to tell him that I had admired his recording.
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